The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-04
ITEM OF INTEREST.

OVER $500, Ooois already been staked in New |
York on the Vinteer-T Thistle yacht-race Sc
| ncs.
The GlaHco BIT Clab, of Trieste, has been
dissolved by the ustrian government because
it took part in thegattas of Venice.
A GERMAN mani Bleibtreu las written his
tory of Englishterature in which Browning
occupies half aSage and Ada lsaacs- menKen
three pages.
| A TREASURY DARrMENT CLERK has invented
lock which cane locked with any one OF TO-
900 keys, but cape unlocked only by the orig
inal key used to ok it.
RECENT neastnments of their collins shows
that the aveagencient Roman could not have
been more tim feet inches tall The mum
my of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES feet o. WITHIN the
last 500 yean te height of the English arts
tocracy has epsierably increased
ONE evening LIST week a flock of hundreds of
swallows invadd be house of Mr., J. g. Russell,
| of Brunswick, Ne, making their way down the
chimney fiue aAd into open WINDOWS. Ihey
perched on the tlriture, and NUMBERS OF them
fastened their chw, into Mr.. RuSSelfS clotnlng.
They seemed obe PERFECTLY tame. by morning
| the phenomenor.
A TALL eight-day lock formerly belonging
to Com. Yanderbilrs grandmother, is now
owned by Mr.. Cross.of Waverly, R. l. Old Mrs.
Vanderbilt used it a. a savings bank, and took
from it 800 70 startyoung Cornelius In ptSiness
That money vas The foundation OF the Nander-
| bilt millions, Mr. Cross married a daughter OF
the Commodore. and the old clock was share
of the HOMESTEAD furniture.
WHILE sometnen few days since were Mn-
ming line Over the eastern side of NEWPORT
mountain in Name, they found on ledge hlf
way up the stepest part of the precipicea
| parasol tiedup, which must have been there 19r
| long time, as the cover crImbled at the toucl,
leaving Only the frame. 1t IS SAID t ir,s "a
! and met thor death many years ago.
THE manufacture of corsets" says hdu;-
tries, lis becoming most important industry
in Wurtembeg, about 10000 people being now
engaged in the trade. Large quantities OF
woven corsetssre exported to Brazil, La Plata,
England and be United States. The amount
sent to the lastnamed country is, however, less
| now than previously, as the United states has
also begun to manufacture this article
THE municipality of St. Petersburg has de-
cided to plant ito rows of trees in all the streets
which are more han twenty three metres broad.
There are sixty-fve such streets in the city. The
Dutch linden tee will be selected for the pnf-
pose, as being best adapte1ato the climate OF st.
Petersburg and me of the most rapidly grow 1g
| trees. 1t is estimated that the cost will be -
rubles per tree ,r 625, 0C0 rubes in al, as about
5000 trees will se required.
| A LONDON LETTER says: THE English gentle
men who are deroted to sporting are very fond
of having the cowboys come out to their places
on Sunday to look at their dogs and horses, and
tell them of thestirriDg scenes on the ffontler.
| frequently there are not enough of the cowboys
| to go round. They enjoy the visits very much
and an active rivalry exists as to who shall tel
| the taleSt stories II they could all be collected
| they would make vastly entertaining reading
| In 1884, Count Johann Widman, the founder
of an entailed estate in Austria, set aside 5000
forms as fund for students, to be used in case
| the estate should be left without heirs The
1 family having now died out the fund, which II
| the meanwhile has Increased to more thar
1856, 900 forms (S8SOOOl has become available fol
| the purposes of the founder and the interest
| will accordingly be awarded to twelve deserving
| students of the gymnasium and the university
| THERE died Aug. 10, near fredericksburg, O.,
coIored man who is said to have been the oldes
| person in the workl His name was Jeffrey vii
/ son, and he was born in Boone county, Virginia
In 1878, and had entered on his 115th year at thu
| time of his death He had distinct recollec
| ton of the presidency of Washington, being
| about IL years of age at the time, and acting a
| teamster for his master, and he remembers
| with pride the praise his master bestowed upol
him for being SO good driver for one so young
PROF o. F. LUMar, of Wheaton, ILL.,. formerl.
of Wheaton College and member of the Con
spirit to withdraw from all churches, becaus
he feels, as he says, that all churches as nov
organized ARE, according to. the Bible, parts
of the great apostasy. and together constitute
| mySti c Babylon, and that their members ar
walking orderly" He says that until b
finds simple Ney Testament church. or join
the church Triumphant, like some New Tesla
ment Christians his church Will be his owl
house.
E. H. vINsoN, of Peola, Idaho. was ridin
across the country the other day unarmed whe
he came upon a big black bear. He was boun
to have it, and so started to drive it before hin
| until he could get gun, and did SO for tire
| miles. While passing house the bear wen
into hog pen to rest, and the woman OF tn
house came out with an AK and butcher knife t
slay the bear but Mr.. Vipson told her that
was dangerous to go near him, so she returne
TO the house. After the bear had rested h
started on again, only going about half mil
further, when Mr.. Vinson was reinforced wit
firearms, and shot and killed the bear.
EXPLOSIONS in mines might happen occasion
ally owing to miners not detecting by scent tn
presence of perilous gases-anosmia or want G
the smell sense being as dangerous in sue
cases as colorbndness in the case of sigma
men. 1t is perfectly plain that to place o
watch duty in any edifice where risk of fire
feared guardian affected with anosmia or al
sence of the smell sense, is practically to secur
that the fire shall not be discovered in its inciI
lent stage. The Peruvian Indians so Humboldt
said, could discern the presence or strangers ID
their odor: or the Arab, who, as recorded, ca
detect the scent of burning at a distance c
thirty miles.
The Pope has addressed letter to the Bisho
of Liege fully approving of the aims of tn
Congress of Catholic Socialists, which is to NEE
in that city this month. The following passRg
occurs in the letter: 1.-The true aim to be ker
in view is this-to discover, while bearing /
mind local conditions, the most suitable mean
of diminishing the evils which Cypress til
laborers, and to obviate the dangers which thei
number and the misery OF their condition Great
for the government and the safety of citizens
and Furthermore, in order that these endeavor
may not be without result, resolutely to appl
the means which have been recognized as pes
adapted to cope with this twofold evil.''
THAT the Indians of the far West have nc
yet been civilized is proved by an Oregon mel
chant, who says that the debts of dead Indian
are paid by their relatives. when Anderso
and Bernhard" he said, KILLED an Indian Sc,
eral years ago, he owed me S345. Since tha
time $3.50 of this amount has been paid me b
his relatives. Kentucky died the other da
owing me $50. Already his relatives have al
preached me on the subject and made arrange
ments to pay the amount. It is a law with ther
to pay the debts of their relatives, and the
never break it. am sure of getting my none
If an Indian dies owing me: but when whit
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